Resource Guide – Promote the Promise: Becoming Advocacy-Ready
This CoP prepared and supported leaders in developing a power orientation for their community, identifying an important opportunity for advocacy, clarifying their outcomes and targets, and building and beginning to implement an advocacy action campaign. Leaders honed their ability to leverage their assets to influence public institutions and their decisions and resources.
Resource Guide – Developing Cultures of Belonging in Intentionally Diverse Classrooms
In this Community of Practice facilitated by RootsConnectED, participants gained a shared understanding and deepened mindset around developing cultures of belonging for students; dive deep into 4 elements of culture building:
1) norm setting
2) community building approaches
3) identity work
4) inclusion
through examples, reflection, questions, and shared experiences, and; put aspects of culture into practice and record findings, barriers, and capture best practices.
Resource Guide – Facilitating for Equity
In this Community of Practice facilitated by Embracing Equity, participants developed 5 competencies that distill the essence of our best facilitation practices:
1) Developing a Critical Consciousness
2) Engaging in Collaborative Co-Conspiratorship
3) Cultivating Brave Learning Spaces
4) Practicing Equitable Communication
5) Embodying Compassionate Accountability
Resource Guide – Beyond the Basics: Transforming Literacy Instruction
Beyond the Basics: Transforming Literacy Instruction for English Language Learners and Students of Color is a groundbreaking professional development series designed to empower educators to create more inclusive and equitable learning environments for diverse student populations. By exploring strategies and best practices tailored for English Language Learners and students of color, this series aims to drive transformative change in literacy instruction in Title 1 schools.
Resource Guide – Level Up Your Facilitation Practice: Facilitating for Equity
Facilitation is the art of leading people through processes towards agreed-upon objectives in a manner that encourages participation, ownership & creativity by all those involved.”” – David Sibbet, Principles of Facilitation
Facilitating for Equity transforms teachers, leaders, & education professionals into child & human rights activists. Effective DEI facilitation requires a deep theoretical knowledge of inequity & oppression, a developed self-awareness of one’s own racial & social identities, an understanding of the myriad experiences & identities participants bring, & strong communication & conflict resolution skills.
In this Facilitating for Equity community of practice, you will develop 5 competencies that distill the essence of our best facilitation practices:
Developing a Critical Consciousness
Engaging in Collaborative Co-Conspiratorship
Cultivating Brave Learning Spaces
Practicing Equitable Communication
Embodying Compassionate Accountability
Our facilitation model addresses antiracism head on, beginning with personal healing while evolving into a collective commitment to building an antiracist ecosystem. Grounded in liberatory education for learners of all ages, we walk hand-in-hand with facilitators to establish a reflective, action-driven foundation. These skills & practices are imperative as education leaders work to create affirming, inclusive, & equitable learning environments for all students and especially marginalized students.
Resource Guide – Advocating for Your School, Students, and a Diverse and Brighter Future
Through DCSC’s newly formed Advocacy CoP, schools learned about the basic tenets of advocacy, developed an advocacy mindset, and crafted an advocacy strategy for an upcoming opportunity that impacts their school, e.g., renewal. Leaders engaged with case studies from inside and outside the coalition, national experts with a history of successful advocacy efforts, and ongoing coaching during their implementation phase. Schools designed and implemented an advocacy strategy during this CoP. Schools are now commited to a their advocacy strategy such as a renewal or a state vote on education funding.
Resource Guide – Disrupting General Education to Improve Special Education
When leaders design systems with learner variability at the center, all students benefit. This CoP aimed to ensure leaders can name the criteria for inclusive school-wide systems, specifically as it relates to learner variability, and evaluate their existing vision and systems through this lens. Leaders walked away with a framework for inclusive schools and an analysis of their own systems and a set of concrete action steps needed to improve their systems.
Resource Guide: Dialogue as Disruption: Advancing Justice Through Conversation and Collective Action
Kindred Communities sees genuine dialogue among diverse sets of caregivers, staff, and leaders as a critical form of disrupting educational inequity and racial injustice. We facilitate brave spaces to build the mindsets, skills, and energy needed to disrupt systemic oppression and create antiracist and liberated schools. This toolkit contains more information about Kindred’s approach, along with dialogue session plans designed by the equity leaders who took part in the Dialogue as Disruption CoP. These sessions may be adapted to support schools’ efforts to ensure that all members of their communities experience a sense of belonging and can thrive.
Resource Guide: Leveraging Data for Equity in Collaborative Wraparound Teams
The use of data in education is often utilized in silos and decontextualized within our school community. Participants in the Leveraging Data for Equity CoP worked together for the past year to assess their personal and institutional relationships to data and examined how they leverage data within their communities to achieve equity for historically excluded groups of students.
Resource Guide: Governing with Equity for Diverse by Design Schools
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1683668318994{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] During the 22-23 school year, 78 participants from 28 DCSC member schools gathered in our Communities of Practice (CoP) to develop resources for the field of diverse-by-design education practitioners. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1684961521963{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] Connect as leaders. Grow expertise. Bring justice to education. Though schools around the country have launched conversations about […]
